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Sisters’ Choice Recordings and Books Shipping within US Shipping to anywhere in the US is $5 per order for Media Mail or $10 per order for Priority Mail. California residents will be charge 9.75% sales tax. For shipping outside the US please go to our Foreign shipping catalog page. Jump to Malvina Reynolds Recordings and Songbooks
SUN SUN SHINE: SONGS FOR CURIOUS CHILDREN 1. All in This Together
All in This Together RealAudio Song Clip
Head First and Belly Down RealAudio Song Clip Audio and Lyrics to 1492 Fix My Dog QuickTime Song Clip
Sun Sun Shine Free Online Activity Book
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I'M ALL EARS: SING INTO READING StarFish Music SF-001-4 (Cassette), SF-001-2 (CD)
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*Lyrics © Nancy Schimmel These songs were written especially to increase children's awareness of the sounds in words (phonemic awareness) They were inspired by and based upon the work of Dr. Orna Lenchner, reading specialist, author, educator, and creator of the innovative The Sounds Abound program (LinguiSystems), video and games. Singer-songwriter arranger-producer Fran Avni has been creating original songs for children for over two decades. Fran's songs are part of numerous language arts curricula including ongoing CBC Sesame Street repertoire. She most recently composed songs promoting early literacy for the National Film Board of Canada's1998 CD-ROM project “HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY UMBRELLA?”. For information about Fran's other recordings, and bookings for school concerts, workshops and artist-in-residencies, contact Fran at FAVNI@aol.com “Behind these wonderful, singable songs is an incredible understanding of what kids need to know about the sounds in words and the underpinnings of reading.” --Margie Golick, Ph.D, educational psychologist, children's television consultant, auhor of Playing with Words and Wacky Word Games “Children are good listeners when there's something worth listening to. Fran and Nancy's playful, skill-full, fun-filled songs invite children to listen, move, sing, play, rhyme, reason and LEARN ...learn in the BEST ways.” --Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, author of Creative Experiences for Young Children, Teaching Language Arts Creatively, Teaching in the Key of Life
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I'M ALL EARS: SING INTO READING MUSIC & ACTIVITY BOOK by Fran Avni & Nancy Schimmel Music, lyrics and activities for all the songs on I'm All Ears, plus extra chants and stories and a list of Books with Rhyme, Alliteration and Other Word Play.
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HEAD FIRST AND BELLY DOWN SCR 468(Cassette)
Title Song RealAudio Song Clip RealAudio Song and Lyrics to 1492
Songs by Candy Forest and Nancy Schimmel:
Songs by Nancy Schimmel: By Candy Forest: Head First and Belly Down
Plus: Somos el Barco by Lorre Wyatt,
“Delightful...”
“Catchy, memorable, and very singable...” Head First Belly Down Activity Page Sound and Lyrics to 1492
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ALL IN THIS TOGETHER SCR 467(Cassette)
Title Song RealAudio Song Clip Fix My Dog QuickTime Song Clip
Songs by Nancy Schimmel:
Songs by Candy Forest and Nancy Schimmel: By Candy Forest: Head First and Belly Down
Plus: Lambeth Children by Malvina Reynolds,
“Forest and Schimmel are intelligent, forthright writers who
wrap their viewpoints in catchy folk and pop melodies”
“Thoughtful, funny and on target.”
“Librarians and parents will welcome this...the children's singing is professional and charming.” All In This Together Free Online Activity Book
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Parents' Choice Gold Award
SPEENEY, SPAWNEY, GO TO THE MOON--
RealAudio Song Clip Gentle yet engaging, this music is guaranteed to relax everybody from babies to CEOs. Old favorites from Brahms to Malvina Reynolds, new pieces by Candy Forest, Nancy Schimmel and Linda Hirschhorn are played on acoustic instruments (Candy at the piano and Emil Miland playing cello) and sung by family: Candy and her brother, Ben Mordush, with a cameo appearance by The Singing Rainbow Youth Ensemble. The music is selected for its quieting quality and arranged to encourage deep relaxation of body, mind and spirit.
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Also available on Cassette.
“...a soulful, eclectic collection of songs...an eloquent pleasure for
all ages...”
“...parents can respond in unison: hallelujah.”
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MALVINA REYNOLDS CD
World Gone Beautiful (Also see more Malvina recordings.)
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Ear to the Ground CD
It Isn't Nice
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MALVINA REYNOLDS
Magical Songs
“A sheer delight for kids of all ages, from two to ninety-two...”
Sweet Stuff * Wheels * Lambeth Children * My Street
Here are the contents of the two of Malvina's lps we still have on hand.
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TWEEDLES AND FOODLES For Young Noodles (book) 14 Malvina Reynolds songs “all full of dance-around” for preschool through primary age kids, with guitar chords and easy but interesting piano arrangements.
THERE'S MUSIC IN THE AIR: Songs for the Middle-Young (book)
The Alameda Mountains
MALVINA REYNOLDS SONGBOOK
The Albatross
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JUST ENOUGH TO MAKE A STORY A Sourcebook for Storytelling (Third Edition) 1992 by Nancy Schimmel
“For parents, teachers, librarians, group leaders, and people who just like to tell
stories, this is a first rate introduction to the art, based on Schimmel's years of
professional storytelling and teaching...Just Enough To Make A Story
contains an amazing amount of useful material...”
“One of the finest contemporary introductions to storytelling around.”
Substantial revisions make this thoughtfull storytelling sourcebook even more
valuable the second time around. In addition to the expanded resource lists (such as
active heroines in folktales), Schimmel includes a brief survey of studies on the effects
of storytelling, a story arranged for two voices with a description of 'tandem telling',
and sources for stories to tell adult and junior high audiences.”
The third edition of Just Enough to Make a Story, in print since 1978,
has been rewritten and updated bibliographically throughout, with the
addition of a new section, “Ecology Stories and Songs.” The suggestions
in “Active Heroines,” “Stories in Service of Peace,” and “Sources for
Stories to Tell to Adults” are still singularly valuable, and the tone
of the book--a down-home approach that will get storytellers started
with experienced but undaunting advice--makes this one of the best
available resource books on the subject.
“...a wonderful, down to earth, practical guide.”
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